170-171 Suspiciously Clever Having just read the Mo City Evening News, Su Qingzhang was so furious he could hardly hold his soup bowl. Yan Wuxu picked up the newspaper and read word for word: "Mo City’s tallest skyscraper emerges dramatically, Parliament Building adds twenty stories, becoming the tallest in Mo City and even the whole country." Before Su Ziceng’s rebirth, the tallest building in the country was Bianjing City’s Trade Tower, and Mo City’s tallest was the Su Family’s "Shengshi Huasha," which to some extent represented the Su Family’s transcendent status in Mo City. But now things were different, with the Fei Family-backed Parliament Building breaking this presumed continuing trend. "Where does the Fei Family get their financial power?" At the dinner table, aside from Su Qingzhang, only Chang Mei was unaware. "That’s what I’d like to know too." Su Qingzhang had lost his appetite for soup; Mr. Fei’s campaign for chairman must have cost a great deal of money, coupled with prior investments with the Hang Family in the seaside project, the internal liquidity of the Fei Family should have been drained by now. Building new skyscrapers at that time in the country was time-consuming and costly, both in terms of maintenance and returns, there was great uncertainty. Yan Wuxu carefully concealed the joy in his eyes as he looked at the news; Fei Qing wasn’t bragging this time, saying that the Fei Family would become the biggest financial conglomerate in Mo City and even the whole country. Chang Chi just sipped her soup, finding some schadenfreude in Su Qingzhang’s furious reaction. Fei Family’s money came from Shang Yin. Shang Yin was like an inexhaustible ATM, though Chang Chi, following him all this while, could not pinpoint where his money really came from, but his extravagant daily expenses and almost no investment in real business, indeed puzzled her. "I can’t let Old Man Fei make a mockery of me," Su Qingzhang knew, the Parliament Building was intentionally raised by twenty floors, this move by the Fei Family was to infuriate him to death. After the addition, Parliament Building was exactly eight floors taller than the Golden Coast project invested in by the Su and Wen families, standing at sixty-nine floors. "So what can we do?" Chang Mei understood Su Qingzhang’s temperament; he definitely wouldn’t accept defeat now, but the Golden Coast project was already underway, including the cash and engineering designs which had all been finalized. "We must figure something out," Su Qingzhang had the servants clear the dining bowls, pacing anxiously in the hall. "What else can be done?" Chang Mei was short of ideas, the Fei Family’s move indeed caught them off guard. "Add more floors, if the Fei Family can add floors, why can’t we, add thirty more, no, thirty-nine more, since we are building, let’s construct a hundred-storey building, I want the Su Family’s name to be at the highest point in the world," Su Qingzhang was boiling with enthusiasm for this idea. "Qingzhang, this isn’t a joke, adding nearly forty stories means re-approval, construction delays, corresponding financial losses due to work stoppage, and where do we allocate the budget for the additional thirty-nine levels," Chang Mei, having managed finances for a while and being a woman, was more meticulous than Su Qingzhang, she didn’t approve of his engaging in these pointless struggles. "What do you know? The Fei Family has already bullied us to our faces, do you know about the latest municipal proposal Old Man Fei raised in the City Council? He plans to strictly regulate heavy polluting industries, especially mining. Imposing heavy taxes on the corresponding enterprises, isn’t this clearly a targeted attack on the Su Family," Su Qingzhang had also heard some rumors, he needed to let Mr. Fei know, he, Su Qingzhang, wasn’t easy to mess with either. "But our income this year..." Chang Mei glanced at Chang Chi and Yan Wuxu, gesturing them to leave. Chang Chi looked reproachfully at her mother, she even had to guard against her own daughter, but Chang Chi also resolved that if she heard any news about the Su Family, she would definitely inform Shang Yin, especially since the future of the Su Family was to be handed to Su Ziceng. Yan Wuxu stood up, saying, "I think I heard the child crying, Qingzhang, he must be missing daddy, remember to come over later," after saying that, she gave Chang Mei a stern look and went upstairs. "Stop all pending investment projects on hand, sell a few small coal mines, and discuss further with the Wen family. The Wen family hasn’t been too close with the Fei Family, now with the Fei Family climbing up to Parliament, it’s also not beneficial for them," Su Qingzhang thought about how to persuade the Wen family to contribute more funds.